Slide Show: Typhoon Haiyan’s Devastation

In the Philippines, the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan is slowly becoming clear, with some areas, particularly in Leyte province, still cut off and in desperate need of help. The city of Tacloban, the provincial capital, is a scene of wreckage; ten thousand people are feared dead. Haiyan, whose local name is Yolanda, is one of the most powerful typhoons on record to make landfall; it had sustained winds of a hundred and forty-seven miles per hour, creating waves fifteen feet tall, which rushed ashore. Here are scenes from the aftermath.

A military C-130 plane arrives in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, a city in Leyte province in central Philippines. Photograph by Aaron Favila/AP.

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